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Betsy says there's food galore
but too few souls who will share.
Billy says that when he's in a store
he wants to grab a peach and a pear
but he doesn't dare. Eddie fears
another fruitless day and night
but never a whine, never a tear.
Bobby shouts,"It just isn't right."
An ignoble lady, long ago, said,
"Let them eat cake." Our portly
rich say, The takers are over fed
on fillets--it's so unsightly."
Slash the food stamps and meals
the pols on farm subsidies demand.
Children quake at such a cruel deal,
scrape plates, reach out hands.
Bill Sullivan taught English and American studies at Keene State College before retiring to Westerly, Rhode Island. He is co-author of two books on twentieth century poetry and co-producer of Here Am I, Send Me, a documentary film on Jonathan Daniels, a slain civil rights activist. His poem have appeared in a number of print and on line publications.